Summer Courses
BUSINESS AND INNOVATION IN CHINA
After returning to a fully on-site mode in 2023, the summer course Business and Innovation in China will again be held in Shanghai from July 1 to July 12, 2024.
The course includes academic lectures, practitioners' guest talks, company visits, teamwork exercises as well as individual assignments through which the course takes its participants on an exciting journey full of discoveries about China and what doing business and innovation here involves. This journey will lead through theory and practice of various organizational levels, business processes and complex contexts surrounding them.
Read more:
Business and Innovation in China 2024 presentation
Main instructor:
Associate Professor Dmitrij Slepniov, Aalborg University
Member institutions are responsible for handling applications for their own students. The deadline for submitting chosen candidates to the Nordic Centre was March 1, 2024. Students were to submit their applications to the international offices before this deadline. The admissions have now been confirmed.
You can read the original call for applications below:
You can apply by contacting the international office (or similar unit) at your home university, if your university is a member.
The course Business and Innovation in China is designed for Master level students, but graduating Bachelor students may also be enrolled. If a member university does not have enough nominations of students with Bachelor degree studies completion, they can nominate candidates at the last year of their Bachelor studies. Note that priority is given to master students.
You can apply to the course regardless of your major, but the difficulty of the course will naturally be higher if you are not already somewhat acquainted with the academic field at hand.
Application form (application is now closed)
Each member university is allocated three places for the course. In case of more applications on the waiting list, please also send it together with the nominations. If other members did not use their quota, it would be possible to add more nominations from the waiting list.
The course participation fee is 1000 CNY, and students will cover their own costs for travel, accommodation, food, insurance and local transport. Visa invitation letter will be issued by the Nordic Centre and we can give recommendations to the students on nearby accommodation. The expenses from an overnight trip to a nearby city (Hangzhou or Suzhou) will be partly covered by the Nordic Centre.
Upon completion of a paper after the course, students can be granted 5 ECTS academic credits (policies at different universities vary, so we recommend checking this with your home university).
Information about previous years’ courses:
During the Covid-19 pandemic, our summer courses were given online through the Zoom platform. Several virtual social activities were offered alongside with the academic sections to give each student a more comprehensive experience.
Before the pandemic, the last one-site summer course was held in 2019. See a video about Business and Innovation in China 2019.
If you have already received admission emails for the course from the Nordic Centre, please fill in this online form for us to send out invitation letters. Thank you!
